Australian schools have started taking measures to ensure the potentially deadly coronavirus doesn't spread.
Five people have been confirmed to have contracted the new virus strain, which can cause respiratory illnesses like pneumonia.
According to the Australian, a Brisbane boarding school has told parents that 10 students will be separated from the other teens after visiting China over the summer school holidays.
They will be isolated for a fortnight and will have to undergo daily medical checks.
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The Aussie newspaper says that other colleges in Sydney have asked students who have been to coronavirus-affected places to prove they have a clean bill of health before coming back to school.
It comes after a 21-year-old University of New South Wales student was hospitalised with the virus after visiting Wuhan.
The woman was reportedly one of the last people to leave on a flight from the Chinese area that has been dubbed as ground zero for the disease. She was taken to Westmead Hospital for treatment, where she is being 'well looked cared for'.
Federal health minister Greg Hunt told Sky News: "We have followed the expect advice at every step. We have agriculture officials, biosecurity officials boarding all planes from China. Providing information and also speaking with passengers, looking for signs, looking for symptoms.
"We are moving at the fastest possible pace to ensure that everything that can be done is being done."
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China is currently building a hospital with a 1,000-patient capacity to help treat any many people as possible with coronavirus.
The emergency medical centre is currently five days into construction and already the building is starting to take shape.
That's down to the efforts of the hundreds - if not thousands - of workers who can be seen on the construction site throughout the short video.
Four construction companies have worked straight through the Chinese New Year holiday to ensure that the hospital - called Huoshenhan or 'Fire God Mountain Hospital' - can receive patients as early as 3 February, according to state media.
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The facility is being built in the western area of Wuhan, one of the epicentres of the outbreak that has so far infected over 2,400 people and spread to more than 10 other countries.
This is only one of the hospitals the Chinese government is planning to build in response to the coronavirus outbreak. When they're all finished, there will be two in Wuhan, one in the nearby city of Huanggang, and another in Zhenzhou in China's central Henan Province.
While the two in Wuhan are being constructed from scratch, the hospital in Huanggang has been redeveloped to include the specialist unit and 1,000 beds to treat the coronavirus.
This exercise in speed-building medical facilities has been partially informed by the response and reaction of the Chinese authorities to the SARS outbreak of 2003.
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